flowmanceMicro Design System
Micro is a loud, bright creative-studio site. The page is pure white, held between two thin fixed side rails, and almost every heading is set in electric violet Satoshi capitals. Heavy black-weight words sit next to light italic words in the same line, and huge italic marquee titles slide sideways as you scroll, so the page feels like a moving poster rather than a document.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- The two side rails. A fixed 100px rail on the left (a 1px line #DDDDDD on its right edge) carries the MICRO logo turned −90° at the top and four social icons at the bottom. A 100px rail on the right (a 1px white-30% line on its left edge) holds a 2-line hamburger. Content lives between them.
- Heavy + italic in one headline. Display lines mix Satoshi 900 roman with Satoshi 400 italic, both uppercase: WE ARE AN AWARD-WINNING *CREATIVITY* AND *DIGITAL STUDIO*. The full stop is often a violet dot.
- Marquee titles. Section names are not static headings. OUR WORK · OUR WORK, WHO WE ARE, MEET OUR TEAM, PLAY ▶ SHOWREEL run as 80px uppercase italic strips that alternate bold and light copies, separated by a small violet diamond or a ▶ triangle.
- Square buttons with a round fill. Buttons have no radius, but on hover a violet circle rises from below and fills them.
Micro is a light-only design.
Colors
Surfaces
#FFFFFFPage background
#F6F7F9Webflow variables for soft grey panels; not used on the home page
#F4F5F8Webflow variables for soft grey panels; not used on the home page
#000000The full-screen menu panels
Ink
#FDFCE4Text on primary
#FFFFFFText on secondary
#000000Body default and the hero kicker line
#061012Blog titles, footer links
#6E6E6EParagraphs, form text, labels, category text
#8A8A8ARare small meta text
#FFFFFF#FFFFFFText on inverse-canvas
#FFFFFF · 60%Address and contact lines inside the menu
Action
#061012The main square button
#7122FAThe violet circle that fills the button on hover
#7122FAThe violet Send Message button; hover goes to #061012
#061012#7122FADisplay titles, marquees, service names, team names, logo, the violet dot, form underlines
Lines & effects
#434945List items (li)
#DDDDDDThe left rail's right border
#7122FARules above service items, input underlines
#FFFFFF · 30%The right rail's left border, over the hero photo
#000000 · 50%Bottom of the transparent-to-black gradient on Instagram tiles
#2F3330Hover fill of the white Purchase Micro button
#6E6E6EBackground behind the showreel video
Typography
Satoshi · display-hero
The quick brown fox jumpsHero headline (.title-1). 79px · 900 · 1.1 · 3px
Satoshi · headline-md
The quick brown fox jumpsSection statements (.title-2): WE WORK WITH POWERFUL COMPANIES FROM. 40px · 700 · 1.15
Satoshi · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsBlog card titles. 28px · 700 · 1.07
Satoshi · body-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsHero kicker: We create digital products: websites, services, mobile applications. 22px · 500 · 1.36
Satoshi · label-link
The quick brown fox jumpsFooter links (.footer-link). 17px · 700 · 1.18
Satoshi · eyebrow
The quick brown fox jumpsTeam and testimonial names: CAROLINE ALVES. 16px · 700 · 1.5 · 1px
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | max 1200px, centred, with 5% side padding |
| Section rhythm | 120px top and bottom on every .section (80px at ≤991, 60px at ≤479) |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px (Webflow defaults), plus a min-width: 768px step |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
hair | 5px | |
xs | 10px | |
sm | 16px | |
md | 30px | |
lg | 50px | |
xl | 100px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
button-height | 60px | |
rail | 100px | |
section | 120px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Line reveal | Text moves y 100% → 0% inside an overflow-hidden wrapper, 400ms, outExpo |
| Slide-fade | opacity 0 → 1 with x 30px → 0, 500ms, outExpo |
| Image fade | opacity 0 → 1, 1000ms, outQuart |
| Hero open | On page load the white .shrink-hero panel resizes (size, 500ms, outExpo) |
| Marquee titles | .text-rotator strips translate sideways while the section is in view (scroll-linked) |
| Button fill | A 300px violet circle moves up behind the label on hover; its radius eases over 975ms ease-out |
| Menu open | Black panels grow from width 0%, 500ms, outExpo; hamburger lines rotate, 500ms, inOutBack |
| Menu link hover | White .nav-overlay slides in from translateX(-100%); background and border changes 300ms ease |
| Link and title hover | transition: all 0.2s colour change to #7122FA |
| Scroll badge | The circular SCROLL DOWN text rotates while in view |
Do’s and don’ts
- Frame every page with the two fixed 100px rails: the rotated violet MICRO logo and social icons on the left, the hamburger on the right.
- Set display headings in uppercase Satoshi, mixing 900 roman and 400 italic in one line, in accent #7122FA.
- Turn section titles into sideways marquees at 80px italic with 2px tracking and diamond separators.
- Keep paragraphs at ink-muted #6E6E6E, 18px / 500 / 1.33.
- Use square 60px buttons in #061012 with #FDFCE4 text, filled by a rising violet circle on hover.
- Keep every image, input and button square (0px radius).
- Add a second hue. Violet #7122FA is the only colour; greys and black do the rest.
- Set headlines in black or in sentence case. Display text is violet and uppercase.
- Round buttons or images, or add drop shadows.
- Use ink-subtle #8A8A8A for body text. It is about 3.5:1 on white; keep it for 15px+ meta only.
- Give inputs a box or fill. They are transparent with a single violet bottom line.
- Let the full-bleed bands run under the side rails. They stop at the rails.
Example prompt
Any page in the Micro style
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What it is
The whole design system in one markdown file, written for AI: every color, type style, spacing value, component and motion rule, plus do's, don'ts and a ready prompt.
Best for
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and v0, or any other AI tool that builds pages or code.
How to use it
- Put
DESIGN.mdin your project and mention it in your request, or save it as.cursor/rules/micro.mdc - For the rule file, start it with a front-matter block that sets
alwaysApply: true, so every chat uses it - Ask: “Build a pricing page using DESIGN.md.” Cursor follows the colors, fonts, spacing and rules
- Put
DESIGN.mdin the project root - Add one line to
CLAUDE.md: “Follow DESIGN.md for all UI.” - Ask for any page or component; Claude reads the file first
- Attach
DESIGN.mdto the chat (or paste it in) - Ask: “Build a landing page in this design system.”
- Keep the file in the chat or project knowledge, so follow-up pages stay on style
What it is
Every token as data, in the W3C Design Tokens format: colors with their roles, type styles, radius, spacing, and component tokens that point at them.
Best for
Figma (Tokens Studio), Style Dictionary and other design-token tools, and build scripts.
How to use it
- In Figma, open Tokens Studio, choose Import, and pick
tokens.json - Or point Style Dictionary’s
sourceat it to generate tokens for any platform - In code, import it like any JSON file
What it is
A Tailwind CSS v4 theme: every color, font, type style, radius and spacing value becomes a Tailwind utility, like bg-canvas, text-headline-lg or rounded-md.
Best for
Tailwind v4 projects, and AI builders that write Tailwind (v0, Lovable, Bolt).
How to use it
- Save
theme.cssnext to your main CSS file - Import it after Tailwind:
@import "tailwindcss"; @import "./theme.css"; - Use the classes:
bg-canvas text-ink rounded-md p-lg
What it is
The same tokens as plain CSS variables on :root. Component values point at the color variables, so changing one color updates everything that uses it.
Best for
Any website: plain CSS, Webflow custom code, Framer, WordPress.
How to use it
- Add it to your stylesheet, or in Webflow paste it into Site settings → Custom code inside a
<style>tag - Use the variables anywhere:
color: var(--color-ink) - Change a token once and every place that uses it follows